Thursday, December 10, 2020

Thursday, December 10th

Project Submission Guidelines:

1. Submit an annotated version of your project where you have used the bullet points of the rubric to demonstrate how your project meets the standards (or doesn’t). For video projects, this “annotation” can be done on your script and/or by giving a detailed run-down of where in your video you have met the rubric standards. See Sage's poem example for these types of annotations. 2. Include a copy of the rubric scored on parts A-D. What grade do you deserve on this project?
3. Don't forget to include your MLA Bibliography when you submit! Copy and paste it into your written work. Give it its own page. Be sure it is alphabetized with a hanging indent.

Honors: Seminar TODAY!
When we finish, please complete:

Seminar Reflection and Synthesis 1984

CHOOSE TWO OF THE FOLLOWING TO RESPOND TO IN TEA PARAGRAPHS:


  1. REACTION TO DISCUSSION:  React to something that was discussed in the seminar.  Was there anything that enlightened you?  Something you particularly disagree with?  How did your thinking about the book change as a result of this seminar? 

  2. REACTION TO BOOK: Write a robust TEA paragraph that answers one of the following questions. Use details and specifics from the novel to elaborate on your answer.

Seminar Essential Questions:

    1. How does a single group gain total power in society? Why do people submit to authoritarianism?  

    2. What are the reasons why people might not submit to authoritarian power? Is rebellion worth it?  What drives Winston’s rebellion?  Why do think Orwell ends the novel the way that he does?

    3. What is the purpose of Newspeak?  What is the relationship between language and power, both in Orwell’s Oceania AND in the political world we are living in? 

    4. Is a government capable of distorting and/or reshaping objective reality (and history) in the minds of its people?   Or is our free will too strong for such blind obedience?  

    5. Is 1984 an actual possibility in human life?  In American life?

    6. Could the technologies of today make Big Brother possible?  How?  What would have to happen?

    7. Which dystopian novel do you think contains more plausibility and/or relevancy to our society and culture, 1984 or Brave New World (or maybe The Hunger Games)?  Why?


  1. EXTEND YOUR THINKING: Read The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism and/or “The Danger of American Fascism.” Explore which tendencies you could see getting out of hand in our own society.  Choose several characteristics from these readings that you see as having the potential to corrupt our democracy and explain how that might happen in America.